As a beloved staple for summer gardens, typically in full bloom from August to September, now is the time to contemplate when ...

If you planted your first sunflower seed in a paper Dixie cup in kindergarten and watched it grow, you're probably hooked on these easy-to-grow, showy flowers for the garden. Sunflowers are perfect ...

All sunflower species have a strange trait in common: any one of their blooms, called a capitulum, is actually made up of two varieties of flowers—ray flowers, which make up the sunflower’s ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and ...

Gro Alert from Dan Gilrein of Cornell explores the new presence of the sunflower spittlebug in the Northeast U.S.

One significant chapter of this history comes from the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a place that played a critical role in U.S. war efforts and employed thousands of men and women over the years.

Does it make me some sort of botany geek if I admit to getting a little over-excited by the sight of the first Okanagan ...

Real flowers do it, and even the Beatles did it. [Robo Hub] now has a plastic sunflower that tracks the sun using, of course, an Arduino. It may not qualify as a real robot, but it does mimic a ...

One possible limitation is that doubled--haploid production depends on the genetic background of the sunflower. The best genetic variety yielded more than 50% more haploid seeds per plant than any ...

If you planted your first sunflower seed in a paper Dixie cup in kindergarten and watched it grow, you're probably hooked on these easy-to-grow, showy flowers for the garden. Sunflowers are ...